Aetherial Worlds

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Compilation copyright © 2018 by Tatyana Tolstaya

English translation copyright © 2018 by Anya Migdal

Original Russian text copyright © Tatyana Tolstaya

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Several stories first appeared in the following publications: Iowa Review: “Smoke and Shadows” (2015). The New Yorker: “Aspic” (2016), “Father” (2015), “See the Reverse” originally appeared in different form as “See the Other Side” (2007), and “The Square” (2015). Zoetrope All-Story: “Nowhere” and “A Young Lady in Bloom” (2015).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tolstaia, Tatiana, [date]- author. | Migdal, Anya, translator.

Title: Aetherial worlds : stories / Tatyana Tolstaya ; translated from the Russian by Anya Migdal.

Description: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. | “Borzoi book.”

Identifiers: LCCN 2017032042 | ISBN 9781524732776 (hardcover) ISBN 9781524732783 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Short stories, Russian—20th century—Translations into English.

Classification: LCC PG3489.O476 A2 2018 | DDC 891.73/44—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032042

Ebook ISBN 9781524732783

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover photograph: Touch by Johan Lilja. Private collection / Bridgeman Images

Cover design by Stephanie Ross

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